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Duration
3 Day course with Hands on Labs
Prerequisites
Experience/ familiarity in SharePoint Server 2007 will be an added advantage.
Target audience
- Business Analysts who wish to learn more about SharePoint Server 2010.
- End Users who wish to learn how to use the SharePoint Server 2010 and be productive with new feature set.
- IT Professional who wish to know the new features available in SharePoint Server 2010 administration.
- Developers who wish to know the new development capabilities in SharePoint Server 2010.
Agenda
Day 1:
Module 1: Introduction and New Feature Overview in SharePoint 2010
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 environment and its underlying components. We will compare the features available in SharePoint Foundation 2010 with the extended capabilities of the Microsoft SharePoint Server Standard and Enterprise releases.
Module 2: Working with SharePoint Web Applications and Sites
This chapter will explore how to create and extend SharePoint Web Applications, work with content databases, and manage authentication. Furthermore this chapter will discuss administration features at the site collection and site level, creating and deleting sites, and configuring navigation, master pages, features and other site-level settings.
Hands-on-Lab: Creating a new Web Application, Site Collections and configuring navigation, document management system features and customizing the site-level features.
Module 3: Understanding SharePoint Designer 2010
In this chapter we introduce the SharePoint Designer tool and explain how it can be used to customize sites, and introduce new components to sites.
Hands-on-Lab: Creating Lists and Libraries, configuring External Content Types and working with Workflow designer
Day 2:
Module 4: Introducing SharePoint 2010 Development Platform
In this module we will learn at high-level the key differences between the earlier of versions of SharePoint and the new version in different aspects such as architecture, development and application lifecycle management, etc… This module will give lot of valuable information on what opportunities available as application developer within SharePoint 2010 platform.
Module 5: SharePoint Development Support in Visual Studio 2010
In this module, we cover key functionalities of the SharePoint development tools in Visual Studio 2010, including project and item templates that can help increase the productivity of developers. We also cover the number of new designers and wizards that are available to help manage the common settings of solutions we develop using SharePoint SDK.
Hands-on-Lab: SharePoint development support in Visual Studio 2010
Module 6: Customizing SharePoint 2010 Pages and Navigation
Master Pages is a key concept for providing a professional look and feel in SharePoint 2010 solutions, with less development effort. Navigation is a very important factor in SharePoint solutions since it decides the end user’s satisfaction level. Designing functional navigation badly can discourage users from revisiting sites
In this module we will cover the use of Master Page framework, theming engine and navigation and how we can build an effective SharePoint 2010 solution by combining all of these.
Hands-on-Lab: Working with Master Pages and Navigation
Day 3:
Module 7: Working with SharePoint 2010 Object Model
As we all know SharePoint is leveraging the features of .NET Framework and ASP.NET. How about getting to know what is happening under the cover and controlling them by us? SharePoint exposes an Object Model (API) for developers to take advantage and offer more unique solutions to end-users.
Hands-on-Lab: Working with Server Object Model
Module 8: Developing Web parts, the building blocks for a SharePoint site
Way back in 2003, when web sites were very static, SharePoint team invented Web Parts to bring more dynamism to web sites. Combining Web Parts as part of ASP.NET witnesses how powerful and popular is this Web Part technology among web developers. It has got even better in SharePoint 2010.
In this module we will cover the basics of Web Part development in SharePoint 2010, deployment and debugging using Visual Studio 2010.
Hands-on-Lab: Creating Web Parts
Module 9: SharePoint and Workflow Services
In this module we will cover the basics of Workflow Services in SharePoint 2010 and what are the available out-of-box workflows to begin with. Then we will cover how we can use Visio 2010 to model our business process and take it to next level and develop it using SharePoint Designer 2010.
Hands-on-Lab: Creating Workflows
Module 10: No-code LOB integration using SharePoint Designer and Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
With the new BCS services, two-way communication is made really easy while ensuring success. Business Connectivity Services allows us to integrate all our Office clients into SharePoint to deliver functionally rich applications with minimum effort.
In this module we will cover how to surface external data using SharePoint Designer 2010 combining with External Content Types and External Lists.
Hands-on-Lab: Using BCS